GAS-COOLED REACTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gas-cooled reactor mean? 

• GAS-COOLED REACTOR (noun)
  The noun GAS-COOLED REACTOR has 1 sense:

1. a nuclear reactor using gas as a coolant

  Familiarity information: GAS-COOLED REACTOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAS-COOLED REACTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A nuclear reactor using gas as a coolant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("gas-cooled reactor" is a kind of...):

nuclear reactor; reactor ((physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements)